One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.